Excerpt

I've been re-reading Dorothy Sayer's Gaudy Night. It's one of those old favorites I come back to every couple of years. (The latter part of today I had headaches again, so reading fiction was about what I was good for.) Last time through I think I paid most attention to the themes surrounding academia and relationships. This time what is standing out is the attention to finding one's work, especially in the passage below. (Or part of the passage below. But I am including the whole bit.)

(Well, those things, and that it is a better crafted mystery than I had initially thought. And that while I am generally quite fond of the character of Lord Peter, in comparison Harriet makes him look rather two dimensional -- especially in this book, which is really her story. Though when I think how believably Peter brought most of his romantic problems on himself, I feel less like slapping him.)
( the passage... )